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"and the bagpipes and only captain Groves and father talking about Rorkes drift and Plevna and sir Garnet Wolseley" (U18.689) |
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"and Gordon at Khartoum" (U18.691) |
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"lighting their pipes for them everytime they went out drunken old devil with his grog on the windowsill catch him leaving any of it picking his nose trying to think of some other dirty story to tell up in a corner" (18.691) |
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"but he never forgot himself when I was there sending me out of the room on some blind excuse paying his compliments the Bushmills whisky talking of course but hed do the same to the next woman that came along I suppose he died of galloping drink ages ago" (U18.694) |
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"the days like years not a letter from a living soul except the odd few I posted to myself with bits of paper in them so bored sometimes" (U18.698) |
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"he didnt recognise me either when I half frowned at him outside Westland row chapel where does their great intelligence come in Id like to know" (U18.708) (Image courtesy of the ZJJF) |
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"no visitors or post ever except his cheques or some advertisement like that wonderworker they sent him addressed dear Madam only his letter and the card from Milly this morning see she wrote a letter to him who did I get the last letter from O Mrs Dwenn now what possessed her to write from Canada after so many years to know the recipe I had for pisto madrileno Floey Dillon since " (U18.715) |
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"I wish somebody would write me a loveletter his wasnt much and I told him he could write what he liked yours ever Hugh Boylan in old Madrid stuff silly women believe love is sighing I am dying still if he wrote it I suppose thered be some truth in it true or no it fills up your whole day and life" (U8.734) |
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"just a few words not those long crossed letters Atty Dillon used to write to the fellow that was something in the four courts that jilted her after out of the ladies letterwriter when I told her to say a few simple words he could twist how he liked " (U18.740) |
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"not acting with precipat precip itancy with equal candour the greatest earthly happiness answer to a gentlemans proposal affirmatively" (U18.743) |
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"Mulveys was the first when I was in bed that morning and Mrs Rubio brought it in with the coffee she stood there standing when I asked her to hand me and I pointing at them I couldnt think of the word a hairpin to open it with ah horquilla" (U18.748) |
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"disobliging old thing and it staring her in the face with her switch of false hair on her and vain about her appearance ugly as she was near 80 or a 100 her face a mass of wrinkles with all her religion" (U18.751) |
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"domineering because she never could get over the Atlantic fleet coming in half the ships of the world and the Union Jack flying with all her carabineros" (U18.754) |
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"because 4 drunken English sailors took all the rock from them" (U18.756) Gibraltar was captured during the War of the Spanish Succession. On August 4th 1704, after 6 hours of bombardment starting at 5:00 am, some 1800 Dutch and British marines, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke, captured Gibraltar. General Roger Elliott (ca.1665-1714) was one of the earliest British Governors of Gibraltar. |